Monday 4/21/2008 8:00 PM 18+ $6.00
Practice Space presents:
Friends With Benefits
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
Elizabeth Elmore
John Henry & The Engine
Aaron Ackerson
Mary Ralph and Her Husbands
A portion of the Friends With Benefits proceeds will benefit a different charity each week.
Plus a weekly charity raffle featuring items donated by VenusZine, Stop Smiling, Schubas, The Metro, The Changes, Martin Atkins/Invisible, Reckless Records, The Chicago Diner, Handlebar, and others.
With Welsh-born Elia as the ringleader, The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir is a free-spirited collective of musical visionaries who turn out exuberant and rough-hewn chamber pop. Over 50 musicians appear on the band's Bloodshot debut The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, including core players Ellen O’Hayer (the band’s cellist and vocalist who moonlights in Bright Eyes’ touring band,) bassist and recording engineer Mark Yoshizumi, drummer Jay Santana, violin player Ethan Adelsman and Sam Johnson of Mucca Pazza and Head of Femur on trumpet. The extended Scotland Yard family is comprised of a who’s-who of the Chicago underground music community, boasting the likes of Sally Timms, Nora O’Connor and Kelly Hogan, who sing backup on the album, and Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley), Matt Priest and Megan O’Conner (Canasta), and Brett Whitacre (Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers.)
Official Website: http://www.schubas.com/calendar.aspx?month=4